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How much is your time worth?

skgoa 8y ago
Since I have to go to the super market for fresh food, adding 30 seconds to get paper towels doesn't make much of a difference.
- vidarh 8y ago
  This, I guess, outlines a domino effect. I don't go to the supermarket for fresh food. It gets delivered to me by the supermarket, and if I can't be bothered to pick for myself, they'll deliver a selection based on my usual shopping pattern, and I know roughly what they'll deliver by default so e.g last week I didn't even open the app to check what they'd added to my order. I couldn't imagine having to go to the shops every week.
  - bhandziuk 8y ago
    I don't really get how this can work. Like I wanted to try those udon noodles that are next to the ones I normally buy this week. How do I tell that to Amazon? Or I didn't really like the kimchi last time so I wanted to try something new but instead of cabbage kimchi I bought radish kimchi because it was next on the shelf. But I wouldn't have known to search for that. Or the big avocados look better than the small ones. I'll get two of those instead of 3 of the large ones. Do you still have this kind of product discovery with Amazon?
    - garmaine 8y ago
      "Customers also bought..." "You might also like..." "Customers who did not buy this bought .... instead"
  - mrguyorama 8y ago
    >I couldn't imagine having to go to the shops every week. Why? Is it really so arduous to go out in public? To view a selection of products? To select your own produce? I am completely unable to comprehend how running errands is such an exhausting activity. Even when I was my most depressed, the times I would even turn down activities with friends, I still made it to the various stores I needed to live my life.
- garmaine 8y ago
  Costco is a wholesale market, not a supermarket. Not really a fresh food destination.
  - jdeibele 8y ago
    Went shopping there yesterday. Got salad mixes, tomatoes, potatoes, apples, carrots, cherries, broccoli, oranges, Brussels sprouts, etc. Some stuff I buy elsewhere because the quantities are too large even for 2 adults and 3 teenagers.
    - garmaine 8y ago
      We clearly have different definitions of "fresh food" if you are including pre-processed bag mixes and boxed vegetables sprayed with preservatives.
paulcole 8y ago
Nothing. When I'm not at work I don't get paid.
- garmaine 8y ago
  That's entirely missing the point. How much would you pay to have an extra 30 minutes with your kids or significant other? Or an extra 30 minutes on your hobby project? Or generally speaking doing anything other than buying paper towels at a wholesale market. That's how much your time is worth. And our time is limited. Our kids are only living with us and wanting to play with us for scant few years. We're only young and healthy and able to do active things for scant few years too. The value of that time is more now than later. If you're telling me that you would rather spend that 30min driving to Costco, dealing with parking, lugging that big pack of paper towels to the checkout stand, waiting in line, and driving back, all to save $2.50... that says a depressing amount about how much you value your life and the people you spend it with. EDIT: Or you are actually so poor that the trade-off is "buy low price or don't don't eat next week," in which case I respect it. But then you wouldn't actually be shopping at Costco since it isn't the lowest prices.

Since I have to go to the super market for fresh food, adding 30 seconds to get paper towels doesn't make much of a difference.

vidarh 8y ago
This, I guess, outlines a domino effect. I don't go to the supermarket for fresh food. It gets delivered to me by the supermarket, and if I can't be bothered to pick for myself, they'll deliver a selection based on my usual shopping pattern, and I know roughly what they'll deliver by default so e.g last week I didn't even open the app to check what they'd added to my order. I couldn't imagine having to go to the shops every week.
- bhandziuk 8y ago
  I don't really get how this can work. Like I wanted to try those udon noodles that are next to the ones I normally buy this week. How do I tell that to Amazon? Or I didn't really like the kimchi last time so I wanted to try something new but instead of cabbage kimchi I bought radish kimchi because it was next on the shelf. But I wouldn't have known to search for that. Or the big avocados look better than the small ones. I'll get two of those instead of 3 of the large ones. Do you still have this kind of product discovery with Amazon?
  - garmaine 8y ago
    "Customers also bought..." "You might also like..." "Customers who did not buy this bought .... instead"
- mrguyorama 8y ago
  >I couldn't imagine having to go to the shops every week. Why? Is it really so arduous to go out in public? To view a selection of products? To select your own produce? I am completely unable to comprehend how running errands is such an exhausting activity. Even when I was my most depressed, the times I would even turn down activities with friends, I still made it to the various stores I needed to live my life.
garmaine 8y ago
Costco is a wholesale market, not a supermarket. Not really a fresh food destination.
- jdeibele 8y ago
  Went shopping there yesterday. Got salad mixes, tomatoes, potatoes, apples, carrots, cherries, broccoli, oranges, Brussels sprouts, etc. Some stuff I buy elsewhere because the quantities are too large even for 2 adults and 3 teenagers.
  - garmaine 8y ago
    We clearly have different definitions of "fresh food" if you are including pre-processed bag mixes and boxed vegetables sprayed with preservatives.

paulcole 8y ago

Nothing. When I'm not at work I don't get paid.

garmaine 8y ago
That's entirely missing the point. How much would you pay to have an extra 30 minutes with your kids or significant other? Or an extra 30 minutes on your hobby project? Or generally speaking doing anything other than buying paper towels at a wholesale market. That's how much your time is worth. And our time is limited. Our kids are only living with us and wanting to play with us for scant few years. We're only young and healthy and able to do active things for scant few years too. The value of that time is more now than later. If you're telling me that you would rather spend that 30min driving to Costco, dealing with parking, lugging that big pack of paper towels to the checkout stand, waiting in line, and driving back, all to save $2.50... that says a depressing amount about how much you value your life and the people you spend it with. EDIT: Or you are actually so poor that the trade-off is "buy low price or don't don't eat next week," in which case I respect it. But then you wouldn't actually be shopping at Costco since it isn't the lowest prices.